Richard Newcombe is a Research Scientist
at the Oculus Research lab. Prior to that, he held a Postdoctoral Associate
position at the University of Washington, working on computer vision advised
by Steve Seitz and Dieter Fox. His PhD research is about Robot Vision, with
Andrew Davison and Murray Shanahan at Imperial College, London. Before that,
he studied with Owen Holland at the University of Essex where I received my
BSc. and MSc. in robotics, machine learning and embedded systems.

Giora
Yahav

Dr. Giora Yahav is the General Manager of AIT (AdvancedImaging Technology) group at Microsoft
R&D Israel. He joined Microsoft in June 2009, as part of the acquisition
of 3DV Systems. Dr. Yahav previously served as Senior VP R&D and CTO of
3DV Systems, and was also one of 3DV's founders and the Inventor of its basic
technology. Dr. Yahav is a leading expert in imaging technologies and is
regarded as thought leader in advance imaging technologies especially in
novel CMOS based imagers. He is an active member of IEEE and SPIE, lecturing
on various international conferences and academic conventions. He has
published more than 20 papers and contributed to several fundamental
researches in the field of imaging with an emphasis on active 3D imaging.
Prior to embarking on a management career. Dr. Yahav spent eight years in
academic research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Technion in
Haifa and the Max-Plank Institute in Germany. Dr. Yahav holds a Ph.D. in
Physical Chemistry, a M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry and a B.Sc. in Chemistry
& Physics.